A fantasy as delicious as it is malicious introduces raving and ravenous eaters, to wit, the tentacled \"bug-eyed slime slusher\" and \"fire-breathing tyrannosaurus rat.\" (Rest assured that these creatures look even weirder than their names suggest.) Served a dinner of string beans and cheese souffle, a boy named Mo sees instead a bowl of worms topped with a googly-eyed bullfrog head. Thoroughly dismayed, Mo metamorphoses into a \"ferocious green warthog monster\" and \"eats around\" the disgusting dish-i.e., devours everything else. After gobbling up parents and house, Mo-monster No. 1 removes his own head, and out of his body steps a larger \"pink-eyed alligator chirper\" who chows upon Mo"s hometown. Subsequent entities munch the White House, the U.S. and finally the earth collage elements including tiny buildings and exotic postage stamps indicate cities and towns. Only Mo"s grotesque souffle remains untouched. Drescher (Pat the Beastie) draws with a delicate hand, yet his near-omnivorous creations are anything but subtle, and Mo himself has the limp appearance of a ventriloquist"s dummy. In balance, however, this gleefully weird picture book finds the redemptive comedy in an all-too-familiar dinner-table disaster. Ages 4-8.